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525 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Black and white photographic plates. Illustrated map endpapers. "Based on previously classified archival research and over 100 interviews, including with British and German Commanders who worked with the Canadians. Particularly fascinating are details of NATO planning for meeting a Warsaw Pact attack, including how nuclear weapons would be used." - from dust jacket. Printed on glossy stock. Moderate peripheral wear. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
342 pages. "This story of Canadian victories in the great struggle, with an entertaining analysis of what lay behind them, makes up a book which will not only be immediately interesting, but will also be a strong feature in your library in years to come. Look, for instance, at the story of our boys' capture of Vimy Ridge, and think with what avidity your children will read this ten years from now." - from dust jacket. Book unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Dust jacket bears several peripheral tears and is missing several chips but is handsome in new archival-grade brodart cover. Rare in jacket. WALLACE P.64. Book
388 pages including index, footnotes and black and white photographic plates. Presents the case for Ezra Pound, the man who edited the work of Yeats and T.S. Eliot, helped introduce the poetry of Robert Frost and influenced the development of Hemingway and was tried for treason and sent to an insane asylum. Includes excerpts from the controversial broadcasts Pound made from Italy during World War II. Book is tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is moderately sunned at spine and preserved in mylar. A sound copy. Book
198 pages. Substantial World War II influence to this issue i.e. relieving shortages, writing to servicemen, Civil Air Patrol, Red Cross, students in uniform, and more. Extensively autographed. Average wear. Binding intact. Spine leaning. A sound copy. Book
Pages 597 through 714 pages. Several additional pages of illustrated advertisements. Contents include: The 'Lost Battalion' of the 77th Division; The Enveloping Attack; Motor Transportation in Military Operations; The Philippines Maneuvers; The Company's Personnel; Trotski and the Conscription of Labor; German Infantry Training; The War Stock Uniform. Black and white illustrations. Average wear. Top inch of backstrip open but present. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; The Wedding Present, by Margaret Nyren Hoffman; Design for a National Capital, by J.F.C. Smith - a bird's-eye view of the fifty-year plan for the beautification of Ottawa, with black and white photos; Streamliner, by Ray Millholland; 29,000 Miles over the Arctic - by Air Commodore H. Hollick-Kenyon, who is convinced that airliners can fly the circumpolar skyway from America to Asia - with black and white photos; Arena Dramas - highlights from the sports parade as recorded by the dean of Canadian sports writers Elmer W. Ferguson - with photo of "Mighty Mite" Auriel Joliat; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - Cut the Barbed Wire! - he describes the addiction to war and military spending; Looms of Conflict, by Burton L. Spiller - in which crisis strikes at Rainbow Mills and a young man in love discovers romance can be bitter sweet; Norman Reilly Raine - a writing career launched in Maclean's leads to an Academy award for the best screen play of the year, by Harry Bossin - with photo of Mr. Raine; Who was Joe Boyle? (conclusion) - Snatching treasure from Bolsheviks, rescuing prisoners, defying fleets, signing treaties - "Uncle Joe" was nothing if not versatile, by Flora Alexander Boyle - with black and white photos; Nice full-page black and white ad for Pontiac cars; Gorgeous colour back cover ad for Buckingham cigarettes features a hummingbird illustration. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A quality copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
52 pages. Features: Colour Sunkist orange juice ad inside front cover; Fairchild Engine and Airplain Corporation ad - 'From Plans to Planes at Wartime Speed; End of Steel - Dawson Creek, B.C. is a hundred boom towns rolled into one, a stampede, a bedlam of activity... on the road to Tokyo - with photos; Movie Boom - war has brought Canadian movie theatres their greatest boom - 180 million customers a year; Story - Sockeye in the River, by Clive Grierson Cornish; Navy Type - Trent Frayne writes about life aboard a Canadian minesweeper - with photos; Lightning - article by William B. Crist; Inside Germany, by Alfred Kantorowicz - article with photos; Story - The Touch of a Vanished Hand, by Laurence Wilson; Sky Troops, by Ronald A. Keith - Canadians who will soon be dropping into Hitler's back yard - with photos; RCAF recruiting ad for women; Nice colour ads for Nabisco Shredded Wheat and Pepsi-Cola (in the old bottle style!); Colour ad for Orange Crush - showing the old brown glass bottle!; Colour GoodYear ad on back cover shows a downed air crew in a life raft being rescued by a plane. Address label atop front cover. Average wear. A sound wartime issue. Book
Features: nice colour photo ad for the 1965 Beaumont inside front cover; Can we succeed in NATO without really trying?; How to survive in the CBC jungle - and other TV Tribal secrets - Percy Saltzman interviews Patrick Watson and Douglas Leiterman; Madman on the Bridge, by Kenneth Walker, MD; Churchman Reverend A.C. Forrest talks back to critic Pierre Berton, author of "The Comfortable Pew"; Toronto - Canada's high-rising, high-living, heady new sophistocate, by Ian Sclanders; When little Tommy Burns outslugged the biggest brutes in boxing - a Maclean's flashback to the stridently Canadian boxer who barnstormed around the world in 1908 - with photos; How Canada Lives - the winter Samaritan of Ile-aux-grues - Albert Vezina wrestles a freight-laden boat over Canada's toughest delivery route to keep a St. Lawrence island alive; Now we know why C.D. Howe had Churchill screaming 'sellout' regarding uranium in the second world war. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Editorial about Maurice Duplessis' decision to censor all TV shows in Quebec; The Secret Nightmare of Europe - concern that the US might blunder into starting a world war itself; The Firing Squad - story by Colin McDougall - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Karsh Photographs Canada's Melting Pot - Six pages of great photos; Is it True What They Say About Gordie Howe? - is he the greatest hockey player alive? - article with great photos, including a shot of Gordie in a hospital bed with a brain injury being visited by his mother and sister; Chinook - The Wind that brings June in January; The Erudite Jester of McGill - a Maclean's flashback to Stephen Leacock; Is the Male Really Necessary? - noted biologist Norman J. Berrill surveys the battle of the sexes among the lower species; The Ten Best and Ten Worst Movies of 1952 - with photos; Ad for Westinghouse Washers and Dryer on back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Great cover art of a Sunday School teacher struggling to maintain order; Editorial - a fond farewell to Harry S. Truman; Great ad for International Harvester excavating equipment; Our Sorry Record on Housing - Canada rates last among western nations since WWII - article with photos; Youth and Age in a Timeless Seaport - Karsh photographs Saint John, New Brunswick; Queen of the Sob Sister - a Maclean's Flashback to Mrs. Kathleen (Kit) Blake Watkins, the world's first woman war correspondent; Rory Peter's Last Run - story by David MacDonald - illustrated by Jack Bush; How Margery Anderson Came Back from Insanity after a nervous breakdown in 1945; When Ignorance is Bliss - humour by Robert Thomas Allen illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; Do Civil Servants Earn Their Salaries? - The Government (Ottawa) Girl - red tape, the frustration of routine work and Ottawa's man shortage often bring disillusionment to her - article with photos; Nice colour-photo ad for Allis-Chalmers excavation equipment - Ungava theme; 1953 Dodge ad; Excellent Coke ad on back cover features man in a foundry. Clean and unmarked with light wear. An excellent vintage copy. Book
Contents: Oldsmobile Hydra-Matic drive color ad inside front cover. GM Electro-Motive Division color ad; V-E Day eases some controls but nation has no ready chart covering next few months; Great War Bond ad in color; Fisher Body color ad; the U-249 'sails against England' under British escort (photo and story); The Wehrmacht Plot - could keep General Staff alive as nucleus of next German Army; Photos of victory celebrations in Europe; Fat, Satisfied, Vulgar - photo and story of Goering's surrender; Kesselring - soft soap; Quaking Quisling; Photo of the firing squad execution of Mussolini's friend Lt. Gen. Achille Starace; Our Jap Enemy - he is fanatical and capable of long resistance; Delegates face some pitfalls despite wide area of agreement in writing world charter; V-E Day rioters smash the business district of Halifax; Emil Rieve in reverse; Photo of a Northrop XP-56; Amazing photo of Army Capt. Desmond E. Carrig dangling from power lines after his car hit a telegraph pole; An improving reporter in wartime radio must interpret coming peace; Horse racing ban lifted; Douglas aircraft color ad; Interesting color ad for McCall's, extolling the virtues of rationing paper; Interesting story and photos of large military hydroponics farming operation on Ascension Island; Laister-Kauffmann aircraft ad. Average wear. Address label at top of front cover. Unmarked. Covers attached by one staple else a sound copy. Book
Features: Presidential campaigns are a sham - Dean Burch, G.O.P. National Committee Chairman; We Can't Let Them Down - Stewart Alsop discusses the Vietnam War; Discotheque - Go Go Madness strikes and the nation gyres in a frenzy of Swim, Surf and Frug - many colour photos; Vietnam - where do we go from here? - more and more Americans are dying - at the center of the chaos stands U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Davenport Taylor; A mirage of beautiful air - feature on Liz Renay; Anyone for Survival? - not so long ago, fallout shelters were the hot topic of discussion; A sentimental journey to Dracula's Hometown - Borgo Pass in the Romanian People's Republic; Lyndon Johnson's Religion - the President holds to a surprising faith, and it has an uncanny influence on him; Light-Heavyweight Boxing's World Champion Willie Pastrano - champion of nonviolence. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Cover illustration of a distraught Kaiser. 'Cease-fire!' 11am, November 11th, 1918. 'Twilight of the German Gods' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. London's Delirious Joy at the Coming of Peace - photos. Star of Mons in the Ascendant - the closing battles of Britain's victorious armies - article. Sweeping the Sea of the Hun - photos. Canada Conqueror of Vimy takes Valenciennes - photos. Victory Leaders' 'Great Week' at Versailles - deciding the terms of Germany's Surrender - illustrations. Typical Hun Theft and Treachery - photos. Our adaptable army - photos. How the Army will be Demobilised - article by Basil Clarke. The Historic Armistice - article with illustration and map. The Empire's Roll of Honour. A Kaiserless Germany - article by Frederic William Wile. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
Features: An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Jack McLaren spent eight years alone among savages attempting to make a coconut plantation out of the primeval jungle; Beating the Black Death - Dog teams bring antitoxin serum to save the residents of Nome, Alaska, who were afflicted with diphtheria; The Fakir - sequel to "the Jogi's Curse"; The Secret of the Consulate - Italy responds during World War One to the destruction of its warships due to the activities of Austrian Secret Service agents operating in Switzerland; Among the White Arabs - The Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; My Day Off - an ex-inspector of the Federated Malay States Police; The Romance of Kilimanjaro - with photos by F. Ratcliffe Holmes; Perinco the Outlaw - cattle-rustling in Argentina; A woman's fight with a leopard; In Search of the Lost Oases - Part V (conclusion) - a trip from Sollum to El Obeid, in the Sudan (photos); The Red Lamp - a benighted traveller's terrifying adventure in a French town; The Poison Peddlers - an exciting tale of life in a railroad construction camp in Canada when illicit liquor is supplied to the workers; Interesting letters. Faint prior owner's pencilled name atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy. Book
222 pages. The account of a German soldier held captive behind the Iron Curtain. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Copy #108 of only 500 issued. Over 600 pages. Also includes civilian awards. Some markings to contents. Average external wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent reference. Book
94 pages. Nice one-page Diebold ad promotes War Bond purchases and their Cardineer product; Nice one-page color GM ad shows tanks being offloaded from ship by soldiers; Interesting TWA ad shows illustration of native American looking up at plane; Draft dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is released from prison (with photo); Photo of boxer Joe Louis with his wife, Marva; Timken Bearing ad features Admiral Nimitz portrait; Brief obituaries for Raymond Clapper, Yvette Guilbert, Dr. Arthur Eugene Bestor, Will B. Johnstone and Janet R. Aiken; One-page military-theme Chevrolet ad; Ferocity of Nazi Defense shows importance of Rome Beachheads - with aerial photo of military train in Italy; Major war coverage; Battle of Kwajalein; The Marshall Islands - another stop on the road to Tokyo; Donald Bennett's Elite Forces use fireworks to Light Targets; Push toward Finland; The Battle for Rome; Russia's 16 for 1 split shows drift to regional setups; Photo of Aga Khan taking sleigh ride with lady friend in Switzerland; Photos of 'deserter's passport' to be used by Croats to give themselves up to the Germans; Soldier vote problem; Nice one-page color Camel cigarette ad features soldier home on furlough; US Steel color ad shows steel car and steel helmet; Victory garden stats and seeds; Nice wartime Trailmobile ad; Nice one-page United Airlines ad; Fantastic one-page two-color ad for REO trucks features logging and loggers; Styrene centerfold ad loose but present; Milwaukee Road military-themed ad; Lighters, Irons and Bathtubs returning to American Scene; Reproductions of Japa atrocity posters which were posted in war production plants to boost production; Nice photo ad for Dodge Trucks features photos of troops in action and heavy snow removal at home; Reporter Raymond Clapper is killed - article with photos; Nice photo of Army show in New Guinea with Phyllis Brooks onstage; Photo of 'sex rejuvenator' Serge Voronoff with his younger wife; Nice promotional ad for the Metropolitan Oakland area has nice aerial photo; Classy one-page color-illustrated ad for McCall's Magazine features mother reading to son; Daniel Fosdick Parker; Color Studebaker ad inside back cover features military equipment; Back cover ad for Seagram's 7 Crown; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Nice Nash car ad inside front cover; Brief obituaries for William Gibbs McAdoo, Matthew J. McGrath, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, and Sir William Llewellyn; Nice one-page two-color ad for the February 8th, 1941 issue of the Saturday Evening Post which features photo of New Zealander Rewi Alley, "China's Blitzbuilder"; Nostalgic one-page photo ad for H.J. Heinz soups features scenes at cozy lunch counters across the country, including The Salad Bowl in Detroit, Harry W. Knoelke in Roxborough, PA, and others; Lend Lease developments in Washington; Photos of 'Goat Castle' occupied by Richard H.C. Dana and Octavia Dockery of Natchez, MS; Italy Becomes German Puppet - substantial war coverage; Nice color ad for Good Year ties; Fantastic color-photo one-page ad for Canadian Club whiskey features Easter Island photo; Charming one-page color ad for 1941 Ford cars shows green car in snow with little girl and her Scottie dog; One-page color American Airlines ad shows snow-shoeing man carrying luggage while plane zooms above him; Photos and write-ups of two new planes - the Navy's new air-cooled Vought-Sikorsky and the Army's liquid-cooled Bell Pursuit; Nice color-photo ad for 1941 Packard cars; Great one-page color ad for Beech-Nut Gum features Quantico Marine; Fantastic article about NHL hockey's penalty leaders with great photo of Detroit's Jim Orlando; Boxers Tony Galento and Max and Jacob Baer; Photo of the Don Lee television tower in Los Angeles; Iron Fireman coal stoker ad features G. Moseley, President of Family Service Laundry in Birmingham, AL; Back cover color ad for Grace Line Sunshine Cruises features couple suffering the winter doldrums; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
203 pages. Map endpapers. "General Sosabowski was one of the bravest and most unconventional of the military leaders of the last war; his career was both fascinating and of an almost incredible variety. He was born in Poland of very humble parents and as a child was involved in Polish resistance to the Austrian occupation; then he was conscripted into the Austrian Army, but finally gained a commission in the Polish Army."- from dust jacket. Heavily worn first edition copy with usual library markings. Great record of a Polish hero. Reading copy only. *Please note* This copy is missing black and white photographic plates from page 64 and page 192. All others are present. Book
48 pages. Cover photo of convoy watcher. Features: Arctic Convoy - photo-illustrated article describing the adventure and danger of escorting munitions to North Russia in a destroyer north of the Arctic Circle; Listen, Soldier! - a sergeant provides some army humour; Can the Conservatives Come Back? - at Winnipeg Canada's Conservative Party can resume its historic mission or write its obituary; All Are for the State - Canadian Editors tour Britain's military production facilities and are impressed - article with photos; London Letter - Should We Hate the Germans?; "The Crucial Moment" - Douglas Reed reports that war hope centres on a major victory in North Africa; He Saved Fundy's Eider - Taxidermist Allan Moses saved the American eider ducks from extinction; No Lady of Leisure - Elissa Landi, actress, author, ballet dancer, singer and lecturer will have a Broadway play produced. Fiction; Wimmen is Humans (by W.O. Mitchell); A Kind of Magic. Nice one-page recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force Air Crew ("Women Too"). Half-page "Del Maiz" brand corn appears to be a predecessor to the Green Giant brand(?). Nice half-page ad for Waterman's pens includes illustration of Billy Bishop, a WWII airman, and a small photo of the company's plant in St. Lambert, PQ. Back cover colour G.M. of Canada ad shows brown armoured vehicles in action. Unmarked with moderate wear. Two neat vertical creases to front cover. Ads on half of page 3/4 missing. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this vintage wartime issue. Book
42 pages. A fascinating and important issue devoted to rousing American anger against Germany, particularly as a result of U.S. lives lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. Clearly, the people behind Life Magazine wanted the United States to become involved in WWI. Readers may draw parallels to recent history when 'fanatical Muslims' allegedly carried out the 9/11 attack, thus providing a pretext for George W. Bush to thrust his country into war in the Middle East. Covers detached from textblock. Last page almost loose. Unmarked. Above-average wear but still a quality copy of this significant piece of the historical record of America's road to entry into World War One. Magazine
Signed and inscribed by author to the son of Francisco B. Caingcoy who saw action on Bataan with the 14th Eng. 2nd Btn and was captured on 9 April 1942 by the Japanese, started the Death and escaped. 240 pages. Black and white illustrations. Winner of the Book of the Year award by the American Bookdealers Exchange. "A true narrative by Sergeant Waldron, who risked his life in keeping a day by day diary, for three and a half years as a Prisoner of War under the Japanese... A true saga of the first five months of World War Two in the Philippines, and life as a Prisoner of War." - from dust jacket. Average wear bo book. Above-average wear to dust jacket. Book
282 pages. Index. References. Dozens of black and white reproductions of archival photos in text. "During WWII the RCAF developed five flying boat stations between Victoria and Prince Rupert for the defense of the Pacific Coast. It would be well into 1943 before airfields were built on the west coast in both Alaska and British Columbia suitable for serving the needs of military aircraft. It would be these airfields, developed in a time of intense need, that would evolve into the future airfields that exist along the entire Pacific Coast today. This, then, is the story of both these airfields and the air harbours that preceded them." - from Preface. This copy was presented by a daughter to her father and contains her lengthy and heartfelt gift greetings to him inside the front cover. Few other markings to contents. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
308 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Many reproductions of photos. A very heavily-worn former library copy with the usual markings. Reading copy only. Offered as is. Book
Département Colonies-Etranger de la Légion, Vichy. 1942-1944. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur acceptable. 38 numéros d'env. 80-100 pages chacun. Quelques numéros manquants. Tampons et annotations de bibliothèque sur les 1ers plats. 1942: n° 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; 1943: n° 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36; 1944: n° 37, 38, 39, 40, 41. Sommaire du n° 1, avril 1942: La politique intérieure. La politique extérieure. La vie de l'Empire. La vie de la Légion. La vie religieuse. La vie militaire. La vie économique et financière. Echos de la vie intellectuelle. A travers l'actualité. Revue de Presse. Revue des Livres, etc. Sommaire du n° 41, avril 1944: Un grave avertissement du Maréchal aux Français. En France, sous les bombardements de l'aviation anglo-américaine. Les remercimenets du Chef de l'Etat à Paris et aux Parisiens. Revue des faits. Revue des Revues...
